Marketing Project Manager (Temporary)

Responsibilities

• Manage complex integrated projects from strategy/ideation through reporting/retrospectives, serving as the primary contact for internal teams and external agencies to ensure all deliverables and components are on track and within scope.
• Work closely with marketers and other cross-functional partners to define project scope, including objectives, timing, budget (where applicable) and required approvals.
• Develop and own project timelines.
• Persistently partner with creative, marketing, media, newsroom and product teams plus external agency partners from the earliest concept stage forward to ensure that the most innovative and effective processes and production methods are employed.
• Maintain oversight of projects, evaluating and reporting progress and quality of work, proactively managing issue resolution, recognizing when things veer off course and escalating to senior management as necessary.
• Ensure clear and frequent communication throughout project life cycle through use of email/Slack status updates, document sharing, meeting recaps, etc.
• Facilitate, along with marketer and/or creative team, project kickoffs, creative reviews and work sessions.
• Determine the need/cadence of stand-ups, status check-ins and any other essential project-related recurring meetings.
• Facilitate post-campaign retrospectives, along with marketer and/or program manager, to ensure continuous improvement for larger scale projects.
• Research, propose and run small-scale pilots for process improvements, new tools and approaches to project development.
• Help ensure brand consistency and messaging across projects.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience managing complex, multichannel marketing campaigns.
• Background in advertising and PR agencies.
• Experience navigating the dynamics of cross-functional relationships and associated stakeholders both internally and with external partners.
• Understanding of the creative, production and media process.
• Familiarity with project management software such as Monday.com.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Coda, JIRA, Fun Retro, Confluence and other PM tool sets.